War & Peace (TV Series)

Austerlitz (1972)

David Swift: Napoleon

Quotes 

• Napoleon : However, a battle lost is a battle lost. We have one to win here. And win by a few brilliant strokes.

• Napoleon : How did the tsar Alexander look? In good health?

  Gen. Savary : Pale and drawn, I thought. As though he had not been sleeping well.

  Napoleon : Ah. A commander who doesn't sleep well doesn't fight well.

  Gen. Savary : He's not as used as Your Majesty to living in the field.

  Napoleon : Why should he be? It's my profession, not his. His is to be a figurehead. And I must say, he does it very well.

  Gen. Savary : You're more than generous to your enemies, Sire.

  Napoleon : I don't regard him as my enemy. The English, they're my enemies. They won't rest till they've destroyed me, or I've destroyed them.

• Napoleon : Fine young men. All of them. Fine deaths. Their country can be proud of them. It wasn't their fault they lost the day. They died bravely on the field of Austerlitz.